After a narrow win, Portia Simpson Miller currently holding a position in the Cabinet beat Rastafarian candidate Peter Phillips for the prime ministership.

In the Jamaican system, the majority party's president automatically becomes prime minister. About 3,800 delegates of the People's National Party voted.

Portia Simpson Miller, local government minister, received 1,775 votes for the party presidency, while Peter Phillips, national security minister, came in second with 1,538 ballots, said Danville Walker, director of elections at the Electoral Office of Jamaica.

Three Cabinet ministers and a party vice president vied to replace the party's president, Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, who said he would resign by April after 14 years on the job.

I think this is a big win for the women of Jamaica, but it is yet to be seen what kind of leader she will be.

via AP.